Why is it that in our hyper-connected, technologically-driven world, surrounded by a constant deluge of scientific discoveries of ‘how to optimise our lives’, we appear to be so disconnected from what's truly good for us?

As you walk amidst the labyrinth of city streets, the urban sprawl might seem like a testament to human triumph. But beneath the façade of glittering skyscrapers and digital wonders, lies a striking parallel: the zoo.

Animals in captivity, stricken with 'zoochosis', display behaviours born of environmental despair.

When we witness such distress in our fellow humans, trapped in the midst of modernity, do we see them or their cages?

Is it a matter of personal malfunction or an urgent call to reevaluate the environments we've constructed?

Most people measure life in years, but what happens when we translate this into a more tangible unit of time? 80 years, the average lifespan of a human being, equates to approximately 4000 weeks. For some, this figure may seem bountiful; for others, distressingly short.

Over the centuries, anthropocentrism has fostered an inflated sense of human exceptionalism, which blinds us to the spectrum of intelligence manifested in nature

Every one of us in the modern world today, if we go back far enough in our ancestry, all come to a place where our ancestors once lived, as many indigenous people do today.